Creating an Andy Warhol-like Effect with GIMP

°❑ Includes:

• ❑ Using guides

• ❑ Resizing the canvas

• ❑ Threshold dialog

• ❑ Anchoring a Layer

• ❑ Part 1 - Prepare the base image to copy

❑ From an existing image, make a square selection that will be the image used in your creation

❑ Use the Rectangular selection tool

• ❑ Select 'Fixed aspect ratio'

• ❑ Set Width and Height to equal numbers ( I don't think it matters what numbers)

❑ Apply Filters - Enhance - Unsharp Mask to the selection

• ❑ Set the amount between 2 and 3

❑ From the image menu, Layer - Colors - Threshold

• ❑ After you select Threshold, click anywhere in the image to open the dialog

• ❑ Set the middle slider so the lower bound (on the left) is 100

• ❑ Edit - Copy (Ctrl+C)

• ❑ Part 2 - Create a new image

❑ Create a new file, File - New

• ❑ By default, the Width and Height should be equal to the dimensions of the base image

❑ Now resize the new image to fit four copies

❑ Image - Canvas Size

• ❑ From the drop-down, select 'percent' instead of 'pixels'

• ❑ Change Width and Height both to 200

• ❑ You should now have an image with a white square in the upper left and the rest transparent

❑ Next, expand the white square to fill the image

• ❑ Layer - Layer to Image Size

• ❑ Save in xcf format

• ❑ Part 3 - Position the guides

❑ From the image menu, Image - Guides - New Guide (by Percent) ...

• ❑ Select 'Horizontal' from the drop-down, set at 50%

• ❑ Repeat the two previous steps, this time selecting 'Vertical'

• ❑ Part 4 - Paste, position, and color the base image

❑ Edit -Paste (Ctrl-V)

• ❑ This places one copy of the base image in the center

• ❑ Select the Move tool and position the image in one corner

❑ Filters - Colors - Colorify ...

• ❑ Select red

❑ Edit -Paste (Ctrl-V)

• ❑ This places another copy of the base image on top of the red one

• ❑ Select the Move tool and position the image in another corner

❑ Filters - Colors - Colorify ...

• ❑ Select green

• ❑ Repeat these steps to fill and color the other two corners

• ❑ Part 5 - Closing out

• ❑ Anchor the copies to the background by using Layer - Anchor Layer (Ctrl+H)

• ❑ View - Show Guides (deselect)

• ❑ Save your finished creation

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